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  • Ep 35 - 3-player scenarios
    2026/04/27

    Welcome to Joshing Around in Eä! We're just three mates drinking a lager that looks like a cola and chatting about Conquest...

    This episode, we talk about how the other factions ought to react to the new trebuchet. Would you rather be pummelled by a barrel of boiling oil, or your own cousin? Or perhaps you'd like to talk about the wrong Warhammer Chaos god...please no hate mail about that, we were tired... Thank you for every listener question that arrives in the inbox, we read them all and are trying to work our way through them!

    The topic for this episode is a three-way First Blood scenario that was always going to go in only one direction, and it was all Josh's fault. Hear the factions we played with, the way the scenario worked itself out, lessons we learned along the way, and leave ready to run your own three-person game!

    As always, thank you ever so much for being a fantastic listener to our podcast. If you have any questions you'd like us to wrestle with, or if you have a drink to contribute that we can audibly enjoy, please do get in touch at joshingaroundinea@gmail.com. Also, please consider purchasing our book, The Tabletop Miniature Wargamer's Handbook: An ideal companion for the modern wargamer. Find the ⁠⁠Amazon link⁠⁠ below:⁠⁠ https://amzn.eu/d/5dOUmlZ⁠⁠

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    42 分
  • Ep 34 - Trebuchet reactions and City States meme lists in practice
    2026/04/02

    Welcome to Joshing Around in Eä! We're just three mates drinking a selection of American beers and chatting about Conquest...

    This episode, we talk about the new Hundred Kingdoms trebuchet! The pre-Archangel dream has become a reality. Conquest has its first siege engine in the form of a catapult surrounded by staff members, and Josh for one is excited by it.

    We also hear the reports from Josh on his meme list experiments. Expect to leave as an evangelist for Hoplites and many chariots. Unless you're not a City States player, in which case you may find the depression creeping in.

    As always, thank you ever so much for being a fantastic listener to our podcast. If you have any questions you'd like us to wrestle with, or if you have a drink to contribute that we can audibly enjoy, please do get in touch at joshingaroundinea@gmail.com. Also, please consider purchasing our book, The Tabletop Miniature Wargamer's Handbook: An ideal companion for the modern wargamer. Find the ⁠⁠Amazon link⁠⁠ below:⁠⁠ https://amzn.eu/d/5dOUmlZ⁠⁠

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    41 分
  • Ep 33 - First Blood 3.0 first impressions
    2026/03/19

    Welcome to Joshing Around in Eä! We're just three mates drinking student cider and chatting about Conquest...

    This episode, we give our first impressions on First Blood 3.0. After having played a couple of games, we have misplayed pretty much every rule and gotten a decent feel for it.

    The TL;DR version is that we liked it - listen in to find out why, and some lessons we've already started to learn. You'll get our thoughts on narrative play, the state of the current ruleset and how it sits in relation to The Last Argument of Kings.


    As always, thank you ever so much for being a fantastic listener to our podcast. If you have any questions you'd like us to wrestle with, or if you have a drink to contribute that we can audibly enjoy, please do get in touch at joshingaroundinea@gmail.com. Also, please consider purchasing our book, The Tabletop Miniature Wargamer's Handbook: An ideal companion for the modern wargamer. Find the ⁠⁠Amazon link⁠⁠ below:⁠⁠ https://amzn.eu/d/5dOUmlZ⁠⁠

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    50 分
  • Ep 32 - Meme list live creation (2026 update)
    2026/03/12

    Welcome to Joshing Around in Eä! We're just three mates drinking something incredibly strong that Josh was always bound to dislike and chatting about Conquest...

    This episode, we spend an embarrassing amount of time talking about ten pin bowling, the amount of urine on pub nuts and much more before not even attempting an intro. You're welcome?

    Meme lists might be fun to play, or might be boring. They might be interesting, or might make a game more forgettable. They might be ultra competitive, or might get you kicked out of a tournament for not taking things seriously enough. Expect a force grown drone or two to be mentioned.

    Aside from the greatest story about a stag do to ever appear on a UK-based Conquest podcast, listen in for some daft ideas about Nords, Spires and Hundred Kingdoms.

    As always, thank you ever so much for being a fantastic listener to our podcast. If you have any questions you'd like us to wrestle with, or if you have a drink to contribute that we can audibly enjoy, please do get in touch at joshingaroundinea@gmail.com. Also, please consider purchasing our book, The Tabletop Miniature Wargamer's Handbook: An ideal companion for the modern wargamer. Find the ⁠⁠Amazon link⁠⁠ below:⁠⁠ https://amzn.eu/d/5dOUmlZ⁠⁠

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    25 分
  • Ep 31 - Spires rework: hot-take, deep-dive, review, opinions and experiences
    2026/02/26

    Welcome to Joshing Around in Eä! We're just three mates drinking something non-alcoholic and chatting about Conquest...

    This episode, we experiment with something a long time past its sell-by date and then do a deep dive into the recent Spires rework. The too-long-didn't-listen version is...pointless, because this is a podcast. If you've gotten to this page, are halfway through the second paragraph of the show notes and still have no desire to listen to the episode, there is honestly no chance that any wisdom we have to offer, distilled or not, will be of any use to you.

    What's changed in the rework? What's stayed the same? What does it feel like to play new-look Spires? Is the Decay worth it? Is the Merchant Prince the gamechanger we all dreamed it would be? If you were going to rate it out of 5 or 10, would you prefer going for out of 5 or out of 10? All this and not much more in this episode...

    As always, thank you ever so much for being a fantastic listener to our podcast. If you have any questions you'd like us to wrestle with, or if you have a drink to contribute that we can audibly enjoy, please do get in touch at joshingaroundinea@gmail.com. Also, please consider purchasing our book, The Tabletop Miniature Wargamer's Handbook: An ideal companion for the modern wargamer. Find the ⁠⁠Amazon link⁠⁠ below:⁠⁠ https://amzn.eu/d/5dOUmlZ⁠⁠

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    39 分
  • Ep 30 - What makes a good model kit?
    2026/02/12

    Welcome to Joshing Around in Eä! We're just three mates drinking something to butcher the pronunciation of from the Balkans and chatting about Conquest...

    This episode, we act like divas and reveal the horrendous delay we're running at the moment, before taking absolutely ages to have a drink. If you've never compared playing Conquest with sumo wrestling, strap yourselves in.

    Get ready for some of the worst complaining about model kits any Conquest podcast has produced. What do you think? Are you a professional plastic kit assembler?

    As always, thank you ever so much for being a fantastic listener to our podcast. We are doing our best to get a more reliable recording schedule in place! If you have any questions you'd like us to wrestle with, or if you have a drink to contribute that we can audibly enjoy, please do get in touch at joshingaroundinea@gmail.com. Also, please consider purchasing our book, The Tabletop Miniature Wargamer's Handbook: An ideal companion for the modern wargamer. Find the ⁠⁠Amazon link⁠⁠ below:⁠⁠ https://amzn.eu/d/5dOUmlZ⁠⁠

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    43 分
  • Ep 29 - Are the rules of Conquest dumb?
    2026/01/28

    Welcome to Joshing Around in Eä! We're just three mates drinking some of the cheapest shandy in London and chatting about Conquest...

    This episode, we talk about faction balance (and get the chance to get passively aggressively bash the Old Dominion in the process), give a nod to our dangerous and expensive addiction, and point out ludicrous rules.

    If you want to know how to cheat at Conquest by accident, this is the place. If you want to complain about 2-dimensional terrain, send in a postcard. Immersion and the tension between rules, lore, bits of plastic, pragmatism and shooting your own soldiers are all on the agenda today.

    As always, thank you ever so much for being a fantastic listener to our podcast. We are doing our best to get a more reliable recording schedule in place! If you have any questions you'd like us to wrestle with, or if you have a drink to contribute that we can audibly enjoy, please do get in touch at joshingaroundinea@gmail.com. Also, please consider purchasing our book, The Tabletop Miniature Wargamer's Handbook: An ideal companion for the modern wargamer. Find the ⁠⁠Amazon link⁠⁠ below:⁠⁠ https://amzn.eu/d/5dOUmlZ⁠⁠

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    49 分
  • Ep 28 - Just Roll Ones refuse to leave the Joshing Around in Eä studio
    2025/11/17

    Welcome to Joshing Around in Eä! We're just three mates drinking some specialty mead (remotely joined by the absolute gentlemen from Just Roll Ones) and chatting about Conquest...

    This episode, get yourself strapped in for the single worst introduction to any podcast ever created. If you can get through that, you'll love everything else that comes.

    [HEALTH WARNING: This was recorded with five microphones spread across three locations using a digital platform that decided to stop working. Please do bear with the unavoidable audio challenge it may present at various points. We love your ears more than our tools do.]

    Be the first to hear about JRO Aaron's plan for a meadery. Wonder with us about what the topic for the episode ought to be (spoiler alert: Conquest). Listen to some of the most embarrassing mispronunciations of Weaver Courts regiments around, to protect the rest of the world from sounding racist. Allow your mind to run wild with theories about how to improve the game, how the existing factions work together, and the deep psychological impacts of our collective addiction to the game.

    As always, thank you ever so much for being a fantastic listener to our podcast. If you have any questions you'd like us to wrestle with, or if you have a drink to contribute that we can audibly enjoy, please do get in touch at joshingaroundinea@gmail.com. Also, please consider purchasing our book, The Tabletop Miniature Wargamer's Handbook: An ideal companion for the modern wargamer. Find the ⁠⁠Amazon link⁠⁠ below:⁠⁠ https://amzn.eu/d/5dOUmlZ⁠⁠

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    57 分